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This selected bibliography was compiled from files, databases and experience of the professional staff of Southwest Research and Information Center (SRIC), which has worked on Navajo uranium issues and with Diné communities affected by uranium mining impacts since the mid-1970s. Entries were selected for their relevancy to Navajo community concerns, Navajo Nation policies, and health and environmental effects of uranium development on Navajo lands. While the selections are representative of the available literature, they are by no means exhaustive of the information and data that exist in the public record. For instance, environmental monitoring data for specific mining and milling sites and pleadings in regulatory hearings on mine and mill applications are not included in this compilation. Neither are advocacy documents prepared by mining companies. Furthermore, the selections include papers, reports and articles that address impacts of uranium on non-Navajo constituencies, but are relevant to Navajo conditions and communities.

To facilitate review of this list by different audiences, the entries have been divided into the following three categories: Articles, Books and Policy Statements; Reports, Presentations and Testimony; and Published Medical, Scientific and Sociological Literature. Materials that are not available through library and retrieval systems can be obtained directly from SRIC, P.O. Box 4524, Albuquerque, NM 87106; 505-262-1862; or by sending a message to sric.chris(at)earthlink.net

This list is not static and will be revised and updated as new information becomes available and older materials uncovered. We may also prepare bibliographies that address specific issues, such as occupational exposures and the chemical toxicity of uranium. Readers are encouraged to make suggestions for changes to the list and recommend what other lists they would find useful in their community, medical, scientific and legal work.

Eastern Navajo Diné Against Uranium Mining-Concerned Citizens of T’iists’óóz Nídeeshgizh and Southwest Research and Information Center. Navajo Communities, Groups and Individuals Opposed to or Concerned About HRI’s Proposed Uranium ISL Mines and Any New Uranium Mining on Navajo Lands*; updated November 2003. (*Contains copies of correspondence, chapter resolutions and institutional statements concerning proposed uranium mining from January 1995 to November 2003.)

Shuey C. Building Community Capacity: Training and Assessment of Uranium Impacts in Diné Communities. Voices from the Earth, published by Southwest Research and Information Center, 4(3):6-8, Fall 2003.

Shuey C. The Widows of Red Rock. Saturday Magazine, Scottsdale Daily Progress; two parts: June 2 and June 9, 1979.

II. Reports, Presentations, and Testimony

Fogarty J. A community-based perspective on the development of a uranium groundwater standard for New Mexico. Powerpoint presentation of testimony in the matter of the N.M. Environment Department’s petition to low the uranium-in-groundwater standard before the New Mexico Water Quality Control Commission (Santa Fe, N.M.), Sept. 24, 2003.

Shuey C. Epidemiological Support for Proposed Revised New Mexico Uranium Groundwater Standard. Powerpoint presentation of testimony in the matter of the N. M. Environment Department’s petition to low the uranium-in-groundwater standard before the New Mexico Water Quality Control Commission (Santa Fe, N.M.), Sept. 22, 2003.

Shuey C. Biomarkers of Kidney Injury — Challenges for Uranium Exposure Studies; A Critical Integrative Review of the Literature. Masters Professional Paper, University of New Mexico Masters in Public Health Program, June 13, 2002 (MPH Defense), and April 29, 2002 (paper).

Fogarty J. A Review of the Environmental and Public Health Effects of Uranium Mining in the Eastern Navajo Agency: Implications for Public Policy. Masters Professional Paper, University of New Mexico Masters in Public Health Program, March 27, 2002.

Robinson WP. More than Radon in the Uranium Dust: An Overview of the Basis for Uranium Miners and Millers Exposed to Non-radioactive Hazards and Radioactive Hazards other than Radon Decay Products. Statement in Support of Testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims, Hearing on Uranium Workers Health Effects and Radiation Exposure Compensation Act Amendments (Washington, D.C.), June 25, 1998.

Carter T. Site Inspection Summary for Puerco River, Arizona and New Mexico. San Francisco: Ecology and Environment, Inc., for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Oct. 14, 1988.

Shuey C, Morgan R. Summary of Surface Water and Ground Water Quality Investigations in the Puerco River Valley, New Mexico and Arizona, 1986-1987. Southwest Research and Information Center (Albuquerque), Dec. 1987; revised Feb. 1988.

SRIC. Uranium Mining and Milling — A Primer. A Report by Southwest Research and Information Center (Albuquerque). Published in The Workbook, IV(6-7):222-233, Nov./Dec. 1979.

Robinson WP. Testimony Before the House of Representatives Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment, Hearings on the Causes and Implications of United Nuclear-Churchrock Tailings Dam Failure, Oct. 22, 1979.

Holaday DA, David WD, Doyle HN. An Interim Report of a Health Study of the Uranium Mines and Mills. Grand Junction, Colo.: Federal Security Agency, U.S. Public Health Service, Division of Occupational Health, and Colorado State Department of Public Health, 1952.

Robinson WP. Uranium Production and its Effects on Navajo Communities Along the Rio Puerco in Western New Mexico. In: Proceedings of the Michigan Conference on Race and the Incidence of Environmental Hazards; B. Bryant and P. Mohai, eds. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1990.

Graf WL. Fluvial Dynamics of Thorium-230 in the Church Rock Event, Puerco River, New Mexico. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 80(3):337-342, 1990.

Shuey, C, Robinson WP. Characterization of Ground Water Quality Near a Uranium Mill Tailings Facilityand Comparison to Standards. Proceedings of a Symposium on Water Quality and Pollution in New Mexico. New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources (Socorro, N.M.), Hydrologic Report 7:184-193, April 12, 1984.